Quality over Quantity

[Obari]

Recently I've seen alot of threads where people just jump into writing an incredible episode without putting their readers into consideration.
I'm not a fan of reading very long articles and most times I think some posts ought to be simplified and summarized to get ease of attention and from my observation,  it seems most users confuse quantity with quality and think, writing very long post simply means the post has quality  which is wrong.

I've seen very short and straight to the point post doing extremely  very well on the forum and people ought to them learn from  them.

[Mr.suevie]

Recently I've seen alot of threads where people just jump into writing an incredible episode without putting their readers into consideration.
I'm not a fan of reading very long articles and most times I think some posts ought to be simplified and summarized to get ease of attention and from my observation,  it seems most users confuse quantity with quality and think, writing very long post simply means the post has quality  which is wrong.

I've seen very short and straight to the point post doing extremely  very well on the forum and people ought to them learn from  them.

Well that's true mate, am also with you on this thought because most newbie and believe not only newbie feel that's post quality actually depends on how lengthy the information is but true be said you can actually be writing lengthy post and actually saying a whole lot of gibberish while some times it's the opposite like JJG post for example it's very lengthy but believe me every information he provides in his post are actually worth reading. And I think he is one of the few that are unique in terms of their posting styles.

[un_rank]

We already have lots of reactionary threads being created around the forum. It will be a lot better to reply in the threads that prioritize quantity and suggest to the Op to create a more concise thread the next time than to create a new thread to react to it.

- Jay -

[Obari]

Recently I've seen alot of threads where people just jump into writing an incredible episode without putting their readers into consideration.
I'm not a fan of reading very long articles and most times I think some posts ought to be simplified and summarized to get ease of attention and from my observation,  it seems most users confuse quantity with quality and think, writing very long post simply means the post has quality  which is wrong.

I've seen very short and straight to the point post doing extremely  very well on the forum and people ought to them learn from  them.

Well that's true mate, am also with you on this thought because most newbie and believe not only newbie feel that's post quality actually depends on how lengthy the information is but true be said you can actually be writing lengthy post and actually saying a whole lot of gibberish while some times it's the opposite like JJG post for example it's very lengthy but believe me every information he provides in his post are actually worth reading. And I think he is one of the few that are unique in terms of their posting styles.

I'm glad I'm not the only one on this opinion and boat and the name you mentioned, JJG really got my attention and I don't mind if you can get me a link to the users profile as I would really love to see such persons as I hope to learn some things from such a user 😔.
Well I think the idea of posting very long post are mostly done by newbies and I wouldn't have to blame them because I also understand the quest of wanting to grow and be relevant  in the forum but I do believe that with time, they'll automatically realize that it is always quality over quantity.

We already have lots of reactionary threads being created around the forum. It will be a lot better to reply in the threads that prioritize quantity and suggest to the Op to create a more concise thread the next time than to create a new thread to react to it.

- Jay -

You're right and I didn't  noticed if there were specific  threads talking about this same quality  precisely bjt if they're, then I will be glad if you can list them so I can atleast  go through them.
Thanks mate.

[Renampun]

Recently I've seen alot of threads where people just jump into writing an incredible episode without putting their readers into consideration.
I'm not a fan of reading very long articles and most times I think some posts ought to be simplified and summarized to get ease of attention and from my observation,  it seems most users confuse quantity with quality and think, writing very long post simply means the post has quality  which is wrong.

I've seen very short and straight to the point post doing extremely  very well on the forum and people ought to them learn from  them.

Some thread creators only try to meet their weekly posting quota, but because there is no prohibition against that when you find a topic that has the potential to generate spam or is of low quality, you can report it to the moderator, the moderator will definitely follow up on your report. I only make posts on topics that I like, I also don't like making long-winded replies or using AI tools to make posts, my average reply is only 500 words, sometime when you see posts that are too high quality, you have to be suspicious, what is that based on the member's thoughts or derived from AI tools.

[Ever-young]

I have notice a lot of threads like that, most of them are worth it base on the kind of information that they carry why most of them don’t which I just see them as bunch of wasted space, most people don’t know how to make their thread short and informative, they believe the longer the thread the more informative that it could be which is actually not what they think.

Their are threads which I come across sometimes by just reading through few line of it I will understand what the thread is really about, and when I read those whom I find hard and not interested to finish, I draw my conclusions regarding that thread from the subject, which most times might appear to be misleading.

There are members which both in their comment and in their thread they make things very short and easy for other to read and others what they are pointing at and not confuse us the readers with grammar and words which has nothing to do with the thread.

[Onyeeze]

Recently I've seen alot of threads where people just jump into writing an incredible episode without putting their readers into consideration.
I'm not a fan of reading very long articles and most times I think some posts ought to be simplified and summarized to get ease of attention and from my observation,  it seems most users confuse quantity with quality and think, writing very long post simply means the post has quality  which is wrong.

I've seen very short and straight to the point post doing extremely  very well on the forum and people ought to them learn from  them.

A quality post is not by the a countless characters we write but some people assume that a quality post is base on a post that is meaningful and someone will learn from your response, and a quality post gives you a lecture and mostly when the conversation is involve technical questions and bitcoin development, from the four or three reply even a two lines reply can give you the answers of what you wanted, sometimes some of the long post doesn't rhythm in sentences and some of their point always be pointless

[lionheart78]

Recently I've seen alot of threads where people just jump into writing an incredible episode without putting their readers into consideration.
I'm not a fan of reading very long articles and most times I think some posts ought to be simplified and summarized to get ease of attention and from my observation,  it seems most users confuse quantity with quality and think, writing very long post simply means the post has quality  which is wrong.

I've seen very short and straight to the point post doing extremely  very well on the forum and people ought to them learn from  them.

I think you are talking about replies and I believe it should be short, summarized, and on topic but I believe the first topic post or the beginning post should be well elaborated since it is the source of discussion.  It can be short or long as long as it supplies the most important factors of discussion.  What should need to be omitted is all the words used as spices which in fact have no relation to the topic in order to make the post long and look like a quality post that when analyzed is full of nonsense.

[Asiska02]

Recently I've seen alot of threads where people just jump into writing an incredible episode without putting their readers into consideration.
I'm not a fan of reading very long articles and most times I think some posts ought to be simplified and summarized to get ease of attention and from my observation,  it seems most users confuse quantity with quality and think, writing very long post simply means the post has quality  which is wrong.

I've seen very short and straight to the point post doing extremely  very well on the forum and people ought to them learn from  them.

You have a point in what you’re saying but I still feel there are some post that contain long article and still worth the message they’re trying to pass across. How enormous a post is doesn’t matter if what you’re trying to pass is explained in detail for the reader to understand but if it can still be summarized, it’ll be much easier for the reader to go through.

[Hatchy]

That's very true @Obari. Alot if people have to understand that quantity, doesn't define quality. From what we can see these days most new members tends to post longer threads thinking that the longer it goes, the more merit attractive it would be. When creating a topic, you have to be straight forward and factual. This will attract readers to you post. Alot of users here don't have time to spend reading 1 post. I myself often try to get the important parts of a lengthy post and try to summarize it for myself so I can gasp what the users is trying to pass. If I find it boring and lengthy, I move on to the next post.

[PytagoraZ]

Recently I've seen alot of threads where people just jump into writing an incredible episode without putting their readers into consideration.
I'm not a fan of reading very long articles and most times I think some posts ought to be simplified and summarized to get ease of attention and from my observation,  it seems most users confuse quantity with quality and think, writing very long post simply means the post has quality  which is wrong.

I've seen very short and straight to the point post doing extremely  very well on the forum and people ought to them learn from  them.

Are you kidding me? Come on... it's about merit and character for a signature campaign. Nobody thinks like that, if they're on the campaign trail

[Cantsay]

The main question here is; were you able to get the message that they were trying to pass? If yes then I don’t see any issue here (not entirely tho).

You should remember that not everyone can be concise in their writing and just go straight to the point, there are some that feels the need to explain somethings to the readers and it eventually becomes a hurdle for them at the end, so whenever you come across such write-up after giving them the solution to the problem they are having ( if they are asking questions) remind them that those long threads discourages people to read their threads and that they should shorten it. Trust me, 80% of them won’t see this your thread before it gets buried by other threads so try to remind them when you’re telling any of their thread, that would be more effective.

[blue Snow]

I've seen very short and straight to the point post doing extremely  very well on the forum and people ought to them learn from  them.

Every person has different thoughts. Maybe he wrote like that because he thought to create the narration first before getting to the main point. I don't mind with type like this as long as he doesn't spam. So far, I find it quite attractive to get responses and comments from a member here which I think is still normal and not so many people reject it.

[ImThour]

It's always the short, concise, and well-formatted posts that I like and they are the ones that get the most merit too. If you want to write a large post to explain a certain subject, and you are not using formatting, you are doing it wrong. No offense to the users who like it vanilla and doesn't prefer using bold or italics in their posts however it just gives a better clarity to what as an OP, you want the user to focus on. Adding headings is also option but adds to the overall look.

[OcTradism]

It's always the short, concise, and well-formatted posts that I like and they are the ones that get the most merit too. If you want to write a large post to explain a certain subject, and you are not using formatting, you are doing it wrong.

Writing a large and long post does not make that post is quality but it is a trend from merit fishers. They try to hide their fishing works with long posts and try to confuse campaign managers with their long posts.

If I manage a campaign with 20 participants for each, have 5 campaigns, reading all of those posts if they are all long, is painful. So I will likely accept long posts as quality posts and those post fishers will get payments with no issue from post counting.

No offense to the users who like it vanilla and doesn't prefer using bold or italics in their posts however it just gives a better clarity to what as an OP, you want the user to focus on. Adding headings is also option but adds to the overall look.

Formatting can help to organize a post better but can not increase its quality too much. Quality first has to come from idea in the post, then format can help to polish it more and make your posts more friendly, readable for readers.

[letteredhub]

With just the sight of an elaborated thread the reader losses the enthusiasm to uncover the message of the thread on the grounds that it's a work load to have to read such a lengthy thread that could have been summarizes in a concise and precise format. And for any lengthy thread to attract an interest in a reader apart from how vital the message of the thread is, the formatting, the writing style plays a big role in the captivation of the reader to reading to the end of the thread. Otherwise most readers will just skim or scan most elaborated thread if they appear keen to get to the bottom of the message.

[Despairo]

Are you kidding me? Come on... it's about merit and character for a signature campaign. Nobody thinks like that, if they're on the campaign trail

I'm not really sure if it's for merit and character for a signature campaign. AFAIK most of campaigns only ask minimum of 150 characters and few of them ask minimum of 200 characters, 200 characters is really short. Take an example your post, it contain 145 characters which mean if you write two or three more characters, it's already exceed than 150 characters. Actually they only need to create one liner post to get paid.

As for merit, most of people really read the value of the post than the length.

[ZAINmalik75]

Recently I've seen alot of threads where people just jump into writing an incredible episode without putting their readers into consideration.
I'm not a fan of reading very long articles and most times I think some posts ought to be simplified and summarized to get ease of attention and from my observation,  it seems most users confuse quantity with quality and think, writing very long post simply means the post has quality  which is wrong.

I've seen very short and straight to the point post doing extremely very well on the forum and people ought to them learn from  them.

Op you raise a good topic here and I fully agree with what you said in your post. Most users believe that quality means writing a long post but it is totally worthless and also a wastage of time. Long post writes only when you have a good topic and a large number of information and numerics so in that term you should arrange them in an order. If you write a long post then it's not a quality post but rather it's a quantity post which does not need in this forum. writs a short post be concise, to the point which makes it a quality post

[PytagoraZ]

Are you kidding me? Come on... it's about merit and character for a signature campaign. Nobody thinks like that, if they're on the campaign trail

I'm not really sure if it's for merit and character for a signature campaign. AFAIK most of campaigns only ask minimum of 150 characters and few of them ask minimum of 200 characters, 200 characters is really short. Take an example your post, it contain 145 characters which mean if you write two or three more characters, it's already exceed than 150 characters. Actually they only need to create one liner post to get paid.

As for merit, most of people really read the value of the post than the length.

To be honest, I never count written characters. So 150 characters is quite short, maybe about two lines? I think 150 characters is more than 4 lines, thanks for letting me know

[Tuturtinular]

Recently I've seen alot of threads where people just jump into writing an incredible episode without putting their readers into consideration.
I'm not a fan of reading very long articles and most times I think some posts ought to be simplified and summarized to get ease of attention and from my observation,  it seems most users confuse quantity with quality and think, writing very long post simply means the post has quality  which is wrong.

I've seen very short and straight to the point post doing extremely  very well on the forum and people ought to them learn from  them.

Yes, ideally the discussion only conveys the main idea without needing to extend the writing. It's easier to read and people will absorb the meaning more quickly. However, there are several things that sometimes need to be explained to strengthen arguments, such as examples, definitions, terms, and so on.

So the length and shortness of a comment/post depends on the argument being built, we definitely know if the post is extended or not